Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

curtainfic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cur-tain-f-ic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fan fiction which focuses on mundane situations and everyday domestic life.

Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Others, such as slash fanfic or curtainfic may serve as rehearsals of queer identity, might be coming-out processes within the safe haven of the fandom community, or might simply be responses to contemporary social and cultural issues that permeate teenagers’ area of interest."
"Some subgenres are h/c (hurt/comfort stories), Mpreg (main character gets pregnant), deathfic (main character dies), curtainfic (characters do mundane tasks together, like buying curtains), […]"
"Online writing has generated its own genres, from curtainfic to grave robbery."

Etymology

From curtain + fic, from the frequency of paired characters shopping for curtains together in such stories, or the idea that this scenario is an archetypical representation of domestic life.

Usage

Questions

What does curtainfic mean?: Fan fiction which focuses on mundane situations and everyday domestic life.
Where does curtainfic come from?: From curtain + fic, from the frequency of paired characters shopping for curtains together in such stories, or the idea that this scenario is an archetypical representation of domestic life.

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